Venice. The moon is in the sky. A gondola is leaving from a rich mansion where we see visible evidence of just finished ball-masquerade. There are two young ladies in the gondola with umbrellas. The gondola is led by a man in a black long coat and a mask of Medico della Peste. As soon as the gondola goes under the bridge we hear screams... and then on the other side of the bridge we see the slowly floating gondola... but with no passengers. There is a face covered with the mask of Medico della Peste; it is laughing scarily in the darkness...